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We consider stable minimal surfaces of genus 1 in Euclidean space and in Riemannian manifolds. Under the condition of covering stability (all finite covers are stable) we show that a genus 1 finite total curvature minimal surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We prove that compact 3-manifolds $M$ of constant curvature +1 with boundary a minimal surface are locally naturally parametrized by the conformal class of the boundary metric $\gamma$ in the Teichmuller space of $\partial M$, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Michael T Anderson

Let M be the interior of a compact 3-manifold with non-empty boundary, and T be an ideal (topological) triangulation of M. This paper describes necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of angle structures, semi-angle structures…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Luo , Stephan Tillmann

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

We show that in a closed 3-manifold with a generic metric of positive Ricci curvature, there are minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index, which partially confirms a conjecture by F. Marques and A. Neves. We prove this by analyzing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Haozhao Li , Xin Zhou

In this article we extend several foundational results of the theory of complete minimal surfaces of finite index in the Euclidean space to minimal surfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds and, more generally, to marginally outer-trapped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Alessandro Carlotto

We prove the existence of free boundary minimal annuli inside suitably convex subsets of three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature $-$ including strictly convex domains of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Davi Maximo , Ivaldo Nunes , Graham Smith

We study min-max theory for area functional among hypersurfaces constrained in a smooth manifold with boundary. A Schoen-Simon-type regularity result is proved for integral varifolds which satisfy a variational inequality and restrict to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Zhihan Wang

We prove a version of the strong half-space theorem between the classes of recurrent minimal surfaces and complete minimal surfaces with bounded curvature of $\mathbb{R}^{3}_{\raisepunct{.}}$ We also show that any minimal hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-06 G. Pacelli Bessa , Luquesio P. Jorge , Leandro Pessoa

We show that closed surfaces with minimal total absolute curvature in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds bound flat convex bodies. This generalizes Chern-Lashof's theorem for surfaces in Euclidean space and solves a problem posed by Gromov in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mohammad Ghomi , Joseph Ansel Hoisington , Matteo Raffaelli , John Ioannis Stavroulakis

In this paper, we establish a min-max theory for constructing minimal disks with free boundary in any closed Riemannian manifold. The main result is an effective version of the partial Morse theory for minimal disks with free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Longzhi Lin , Ao Sun , Xin Zhou

In this paper, we show the existence of smoothly embedded closed minimal surfaces in infinite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds except some special cases.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Baris Coskunuzer

In this paper, we give some examples of area minimizing surfaces to clarify some well-known features of these surfaces in more general settings. The first example is about Meeks-Yau's result on embeddedness of solution to the Plateau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Baris Coskunuzer

Minimal surfaces with uniform curvature (or area) bounds have been well understood and the regularity theory is complete, yet essentially nothing was known without such bounds. We discuss here the theory of embedded (i.e., without…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We show that min-max minimal hypersurfaces can be localized. As a consequence, we obtain the sharp generalization to complete manifolds of the famous Almgren-Pitts min-max theorem in closed manifolds. We use this result to prove the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Douglas Stryker

The main point of this paper is that, under suitable conditions on the mean curvature and the Ricci curvature of the ambient space, we can extend Choi-Schoen's Compactness Theorem to compact embedded minimal surfaces to simple immersed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Jose M. Espinar

This short note is the announcement of a forthcoming work in which we prove a first general boundary regularity result for area-minimizing currents in higher codimension, without any geometric assumption on the boundary, except that it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Camillo De Lellis , Guido De Philippis , Jonas Hirsch , Annalisa Massaccesi

This article explains a program to study complete and properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ developed jointly with W.H. Meeks and A. Ros in the last three decades. It follows closely the structure of my invited ICM talk with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Joaquín Pérez

For a compact connected Lie group $G$ acting as isometries on a compact orientable Riemannian manifold $M^{n+1},$ and cohomogeneity not equal to 0 or 2, we prove the existence of a nontrivial embedded $G$-invariant minimal hypersurface,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Zhenhua Liu

Let $(M,g)$ be an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold containing no closed embedded minimal surfaces. We prove that for every point $p\in M$ there exists a complete properly embedded minimal plane in $M$ containing $p$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Otis Chodosh , Daniel Ketover